Harness back-pad.



J. S. GUSSON.

HARNESS BACK PAD.

APPLIOATION FILED DEC. 5, 1912" Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

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JAPHET S. CUSSON, OF DE KALB, ILLINOIS.

HARNESS BACK-PAD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

Application filed December 5, 1912. Serial No. 735,100.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAPHET S. CUssoN, a citizen of the United States,residing at De Kalb, in the county of Dekalb and State of Tllinois, haveinvented a new and useful Harness Back-Pad, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to back pads used in connection with harnessesbeing placed in the middle of the horses back and the objects of myimprovements are first, to make a pad which is flexible and will adjustitself to the animals back; second, to make a simple and novel fasteningfor the check hook; third, to make a novel fastening for the terrets;fourth, to make a back pad which can easily be repaired, and otherfeatures to become apparent from the description to follow.

Back pads as heretofore made have been very objectionable in that thepads were made inflexible and rigid in form and therefore often wouldnot fit to the animals back and furthermore the construction of themetal parts were such that it required a considerable amount of laborand skill to repair the same. These objectionable features areeliminated by the use of my invention which comprises a flexible padprovided with metal parts which are made detachable.

To describe my invention so that others versed in the art to which itpertains can make and use the same I have illustrated it on theaccompanying sheet of drawing forming a part of this specification inwhich Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved back pad, and Fig. 2a central longitudinal section thereof.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout bothviews.

The pad in general comprises the upper part 3 which is preferably madeof heavy leather and the under part 4 which is preferably made ofgraduated felt, the said upper part 3 and lower part 4 being securedtogether by stitching near the outer edge of the upper member as shownat 5.

The upper part 3 has four transverse slits 6 and a strap 7 is threadedthrough said slits arranged to have its center portion and ends exposedon top of the upper part 3, the extremities of the strap 7 being foldedunderneath the ends of the part 3 and secured by a rivet or otherwise asseen at 8 in Fig. 2, to provide means for securing the rings 9 to whichthe belly strap not shown is attached.

The check hook 10 is secured to the pad by having its fiat base portionclamped between the middle portion of the strap 7 and the part 3 withits post 11 extending through a perforation in the strap 7 thus it isclear that the check hook 10 can be removed or detached from the pad bybending the pad in a reverse from the normal position to affordsuflicient slack in the strap 7 so that the post 11 of hook 10 can bewithdrawn from underneath and out of the perforation in the strap 7.

The terrets 12 are secured to the pad by having their threaded shanksextending through perforations in the part 3 and screwed into thethreaded perforations provided in the metal plates 13 which have theirunder sides curved to assist in giving the desired shape to the pad. Itis clear that the terrets 12 can be removed or detached from the pad bysimply screwing the same out.

t will be noted that the pad is flexible in the center and will conformto the shape of the animals back when placed in position; also that thecheck hook can be replaced by a new one in case of being broken.

The plates 13 are made of such size preferably rectangular in shape,that they are prevented from moving out of position when the terrets areremoved by fitting closely between the part 3 the strap 7 and felt a,and the stitching 5. Should the threads in the plate 13 become defectivea new plate can be substituted for the old one by severing a portion ofthe stitching 5 adjacent to the plate to enable the removal andinsertion of the plates. The severed stitching being replaced by newafter the new plate is in position.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Fatent of the United States is A harness back padcomprising a leather upper part provided with a plurality of slitstherethrough, a leather strap threaded through said slits, a flexiblepad to which the upper part is stitched, a terret-supporting blockhaving a convex base and a sub stantially fiat upper surface interposedbetween said upper part and pad with the strap passing beneath and incontact with substantially the entire convex base of said block, aterret passing through the upper name to this specification in presenceof part and secured in the block, and a checktwo subscribing witnessesthis 29th day of rein hook having its base interposed between September,1911, at De Kalb, Illinois.

said upper part and the strap and provided JAPHET S. CUSSON. with a postextending through an opening in Witnesses:

WILLIAM F. WILTHMYER,

the strap.

In testimony whereof I have signed my GEORGE I. TALBOT,

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